Karaova [Black Valley] - Comlekci - Turkey

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Material Sand Stone [?]
Block NA
Origin Mumcular Reservoir, Bodrum, Turkey
Entity Inception Date 2008 September

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My only piece that's not marble, also not really what I would call a sculpture. I found this stone in the Mumcular reservoir near Bodrum, Turkey. The lack of rain during the period 2005-8 has seen the reservoir drop to very low levels revealing a viaduct and old pottery workshops and many interesting stone shapes.

Though almost rectangular in cross section, this stone was actually not part of any old building.

All I did was square off and polish the bottom and add the pseudo ancient script with a hand chisel and hammer. If I hadn't made a slight mistake the inscription would have translated character for character to the English word 'NATURE'.

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Ancient Mycenaean Script
Linear B [Early Greek]


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Mumcular Reservoir July 2008, Bodrum, Turkey < Mumcular Reservoir July 2008, almost empty

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